Note: This article is about the Legislative Assemblies in the British context. For other usages, see the end of this article.
A Legislative Assembly in British constitutional thought is the second-to-top or third-to-top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor, inferior to an Executive Council and equal to or inferior to a Legislative Council. Though the Legislative Council should in theory operate as a legislature of a governorate (not necessarily a colony) with elected members, the separate development of governments in the British Empire and Commonwealth has seen the Councils evolve.
Politicians elected to a Legislative Assembly are usually referred to as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), although there are some exceptions. In the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador members have assumed different historical titled, such as Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP, Ontario), Member of the National Assembly (MNA, Quebec, see Secessionist movements of Canada) and Member of the House of Assembly (MHA, Newfoundland and Labrador).
Where the Legislative Assembly functions purely as a legislature
Where the Legislative Assembly has assumed extra functions
Usually in this case the Legislative Assembly functioned as an Lower House or first chamber of a bicameral legislature operating under the Westminster System. The superior chamber or Upper House is sometimes the Legislative Council. This development is often seen when the governorates gain more responsible government.
In the context of the French Revolution the French Legislative Assembly (Assemblée Legislative) functioned as the legislature of France from 1 October1791 to September 1792.
For an authoritative explanation of MLAstyle, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (for high school and undergraduate college students) and the MLAStyle Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers).
MLA guidelines are also currently used by over 125 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines with circulations over one thousand; by hundreds of smaller periodicals; and by many university and commercial presses.
MLAstyle is commonly followed not only in the United States but in Canada and other countries as well; Japanese translations of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers appeared in 1980, 1984, and 1988, and a Chinese translation was published in 1990.
The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, sixth edition (ISBN 0873529863), is meant for high school and undergraduate students.
The MLA suggests that when creating a document on a computer, the writer try to maintain a series of guidelines that make it easier for people to read a composition without causing the style to distract from the content.
Many features of MLAstyle (notably the use of underlining instead of italic type to represent book titles) seem to be designed to make it easier to compose documents on a typewriter (numerous references to typewriters in the current edition of the style manual bear this out).
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